Bus Ldrship Chap 7

Building Social Capital

Building and maintaining r/ship that allow people to work together to work together in the community across their differences

Which of the following terms refers to how friendly and supportive a leader is toward subordinates?

Consideration

A study of 750 firms by Watson-Wyatt, a human resource consulting firm, reported that companies that used 360-degree feedback systems had a 10.6 percent increase in shareholder value.

False

Leader support is a job-centered dimension of behavior and is similar to the initiating structure dimension of the various Ohio State questionnaires.

False

According to Boris Groysberg's division of skills into buckets, leadership and management skills are less portable than produce skills.

False (they arre more)

leadership versatility approach.

In this case superiors, peers, and direct reports provide ratings on the extent to which target individuals demonstrate strategic operations, enabling, or forcing leadership behavior

Rater bias

It may be that some leaders work in functions, organizations, or cultures that tend to provide systematically higher or lower ratings that are unrelated to actual performance.

The _____ asked leaders to indicate the extent to which they believed different consideration and initiating behaviors were important to leadership success.

Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ)

Contagion effect

Research shows that emotions are contagious

Which of the following concepts was most likely promoted by Boris Groysberg?

The difference between portable and nonportable skills.

Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)

To obtain information about a particular leader's behavior, subordinates were asked to rate the extent to which their leader performed behaviors

A leadership skill consists of three components: a well-defined body of knowledge, a set of related behaviors, and clear criteria of competent performance.

True

Leadership behaviors are a function of intelligence, personality traits, emotional intelligence, values, attitudes, interests, knowledge, and experience.

True

Researchers at the University of Michigan considered job-centered and employee-centered behaviors to be at opposite ends of a single continuum of leadership behavior.

True

Mobilization Engaging

a critical mass to take action to achieve a specific outcome is the leadership competency

In _____, superiors, peers, and direct reports provide ratings on the extent to which target individuals demonstrate too much, just the right amount, or too little strategic, operations, enabling, or forcing leadership behavior for a particular position.

a leadership versatility approach

Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with

acquiring and allocating resources.

Intrapersonal skills are leadership competencies and behaviors having to do with

adapting to stress, goal orientation, and adhering to rules.

Intrapersonal skills are

among the most difficult to change.

Leadership skills

are skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through others

Leader support includes

behaviors where the leader shows concern for subordinates

Competencies concerned with analyzing issues, making decisions, financial savvy, and strategic thinking fall into the

business skills category.

Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with

clarifying roles, acquiring and allocating resources, and reconciling organizational conflicts.

business skills category.

competencies concerned with analyzing issues, making decisions, financial savvy, and strategic thinking fall into the

The two independent dimensions of behavior are called

consideration and initiating structure.

Leader support and interaction facilitation are

employee-centered dimensions of behavior similar to the consideration dimension

Leaders high in consideration

engage in many different behaviors that show supportiveness and concern

Mobilization is best described as

engaging a critical mass to take action to achieve a specific outcome or set of outcomes.

leadership behaviors

(which include skills and competencies) are a function of intelligence, personality traits, emotional intelligence, values, attitudes, interests, knowledge, and experience

The Leadership Grid profiles leader behavior on two dimensions, which are

concern for people and concern for production.

The Leadership Grid profiles leader behavior on two dimensions:

concern for people and concern for production.

three competencies of

framing, building social capital, and mobilization

Males are generally perceived as

having higher advancement potential.

most effective leaders are claimed to have both

high concern for people and high concern for production

According to Ohio State leaders could be

high in both initiating structure and consideration, low in both dimensions, or high in one and low in the other.

Consideration refers to

how friendly and supportive a leader is toward subordinates.

Initiating structure refers to

how much a leader emphasizes meeting work goals and accomplishing tasks.

Ohio State believed that consideration and initiating structure were

independent continua.

Both goal emphasis and work facilitation are job-centered dimensions of behavior similar to the

initiating structure behaviors

Interpersonal skills are those that

involve direct interaction, such as communicating and building relationships with others.

360-degree, or multirater, feedback instrument industry-

is to give leaders feedback regarding the frequency and skill with which they perform various types of leadership behaviors.

Goal emphasis and work facilitation are _____ dimensions of leadership behavior.

job-centered

Four categories of leadership behaviors are

leader support, interaction facilitation, goal emphasis, and work facilitation

Interaction facilitation includes those behaviors where

leaders act to smooth over and minimize conflicts among followers.

Intrapersonal skills

leadership competencies and behaviors having to do with adapting to stress, goal orientation, and adhering to rules.

Goal emphasis behaviors are concerned with

motivating subordinates to accomplish the task at hand

Leadership skills are

skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through others, and these are more easily developed than the skills and behaviors associated with the first two categories.

According to Michigan State Leaders could theoretically manifest either

strong employee- or job-centered behaviors, but not both

Competency models describe

the behaviors and skills managers need to exhibit if an organization is to be successful.

Framing is

the leadership competency of helping a group or community recognize and define its opportunities and issues in ways that result in effective action.

According to the Leadership Pipeline model,

the most effective leaders are those who can accurately diagnose the organizational level of their job

Community leadership is

the process of building a team of volunteers to accomplish some important community outcome and represents an alternative conceptualization of leadership behavior.

Female managers tend,

to get higher ratings on the majority of skills

Verbal 360s provide

very detailed and context-specific information on what leaders need to keep doing, do more of, and change in order to be more effective.

The Leadership Pipeline is a useful model for explaining

where leaders need to spend their time, what they should be focusing on; road map for people wanting to occupy the top leadership positions in any organization.